AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “THE GLAD RAG DOLL,” ALL TALKING SINGING AND DANCING. TO-NIGHT. A beautiful woman and her husband engage in a bitter argument, based on the wife’s intention to sue for divorce and demand alimony. Goaded beyond endurance by the cold indifference of tile wife, the ..husband whips a pistol from his pocket, steps into' a curtained alcove, and shoots himself. As lie falls to the floor, dragging the curtains with him, his wife calmly flicks the ash from her cigarette, and sighs in bore-

dom. The' camera backs away from the .scene, revealing a descending curtain, an orchestra pit and the. first row of seats ill a theatre. What- had seemed to be a genuine domestic tragedy turns out to be merely a scene from a play; But wait. The actor does not : rise after the curtain has fallen, but lies in a huddle under the enveloping portieres. A thin stream of blood trickles from under the still form, and a stage hand cries out in consternation. The actor has shot himself. This is the opening sequence of the talking and singing comedy, “The GJad Rag Doll,” the newest Warner Bros. Vitaphone production starring Dolores Costello, which comes to the Princess Theatre tonight. It presents Miss Costello as the wife and Andre Beranger as her makebelieve stage husband, and is only one of many odd twists in a story which is full of interesting merriment and surprising developments, Other members of, the all-talking cast are: Ralph Graves, Audrey Ferris, Albert Gfra.n, Arthur Rankin, Claude Gillingwater, Maude Turner, Louise Beaver, Tom Kennedy, Stanley Taylor, Lee Moran, and Douglas Gerrard. The picture was directed bv Michael Curtiz,; and the story by. Harvey Gates was adapted for the screen .by. C. Graham Baker,

Also short talkies “Sharp Tools,” “Under the Sea. Revue,” “June Pinsell, “Bob. McGregor.” Prices 2s stalls Is 6d, Children under lij 6cl. Coming Tuesday and Wednesday, the Big Musical Comedy “Sally.” Reserve at Mclntosh’s shop.

“SALLY,” BIGGEST HIT ON BROADWAY IS COMING HERE,

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NEXT.

“Sally has conquered Broadway again!” Just as the original musical comedy broke all box office records during its run of two seasons at the New Amsterdam Theatre, so the all-colour screen version, with Marilyn Miller starring as she did on the stage, has established itself as the resisting hit- of the greatest street in the World. At two dollars apiece for reserved seat tickets on Broadway, “Sally” has been a sell out at every performance since the world premiere, and it has usually been necessary to make one’s reservations a week or two weeks ahead. In fact “Sally” has -established itself as one of the things in New York that simply must be seen—like the Statue of jjLi'hierty or the Woolworth Building. But, luckily for a good many of us, it is not necessary to go to New York to see and hear this unprecedented triumph of the screen; for at he Princess Theatre, on Tuesday and Wednesday “Sally” is coming to our own town. It is one of the great satisfactions of the screen that wherever such a picture goes, one is sure to see the" ymiginal production. There are no “road companies” Vvith secondrate players and worn-out scenery and costumes. “Sally” at the Princess Theatre will be the “Sally” that has swept blase Broadway off its feet—the complete First National and Vitaphone production, in which the dazzling Miss Miller is supported by an all-star cast, including such celebrities of stage and screen as Alexander Gray, Joe F. Brown, Pert Keltou, T. Roy Barnes. Jack Duffy and Maude Turner Gordon. Not to mention the huge chorus of girls and men, and the scintillating Albertina Rasch dancers! “Sally,” according to metropolitan critics, represents the summit of attainment up to the present time in screen, production. It presents the greatest of musical comedy successes in . a picture which is rapidly moving to a similar status among Hollywood creations.

Special prices will be charged for this big attraction Circle and back Stalls, 3s 3d; front Stalls. 2s; Child ren (under 12), Is.